Contemporary Europe, 2010 (vol. 2010), issue 2

Lisabonská smlouva - nový rámec pro mezinárodně právní postavení Evropské unie a její vnější činnosti

Lisbon Treaty - a new framework for international-law status of the European Union and its external activities

Eva Cihelková, Zbyněk Švarc, Josef Bič

Současná Evropa 2010, 2010(2):3-22  

Coming Lisbon Treaty into force has changed status of the European Union within international law. Agreeing with major expert opinion it has transformed an international organization of sui generis and a subject without internationally juridical subjectivity into unequivocally identified subject - international organization with external subjectivity. This reality impacts also on external activities of the EU. Thus, Lisbon Treaty has created new framework for specification of nature, principles, aims, elements and governance of external relations of given subjet. Internationally law status of the EU before and after the Lisbon Treaty approval is compared...

Lisabonská smlouva a společná obchodní politika EU

Lisbon Treaty and the Common Commercial Policy of the EU

Ludmila Štěrbová

Současná Evropa 2010, 2010(2):23-43  

Lisbon Treaty brings some changes in the EU Common Commercial Policy and related decision processes. CCP is newly a part of the EU external policies, to which belong common foreign and security policy, international environmental policy, development cooperation and economic, financial and technical cooperation with third countries. The basic areas of the CCP have been extended by foreign direct investment, services and trade related aspects of intellectual property rights. EU external exclusive competences for negotiations and conclusions of agreements have been confirmed as well as internal exclusive competences within their implementation. Changes...

Opatření proti financování terorismu: ladění pravidel pro vytváření evropských sankčních seznamů

Measures against Financing Terrorism: Tuning of Rules related to European Sanctions Lists

Zuzana Trávníčková

Současná Evropa 2010, 2010(2):45-59  

People's Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) is an Iranian opposition group, based in France. In May 2002, the name of the Organisation appeared on the sanction list of the European Union. The list was established by Common position 2001/931/CFSP on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism and Council regulation (EC) 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism. Both the acts implemented the United Nations Security Council resolution 1373 (2001). According to the restrictions defined in the regulation, financial and economic sources of PMOI were frozen....

Fragmentace společných hodnot? Výjimky z Listiny základních práv Evropské unie

Fragmentalization of Common Values? Opt-outs from the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

Helena Bončková, Hubert Smekal

Současná Evropa 2010, 2010(2):61-81  

Fundamental rights in the European Union experienced remarkable development - from their practical absence, through subtle attempts of their concretization, to the legally binding human rights bill. Respect for human rights is considered as one of the values which is common to the Member States and which the European Union is founded on. In spite of the explicitly proclaimed foundation of the European integration the common understanding between Member States as to the concrete form of the foundation is missing. Three Member States - the United Kingdom, Poland and later also the Czech Republic - has negotiated special treatment in relation to the Charter...

Evropská unie a Středomořský prostor: Vliv izraelsko-palestinského konfliktu na dynamiku spolupráce Evropské unie a Středomoří

The European Union and the Mediterranean: The Impact of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on Cooperation of the European Union and the Mediterranean Region

Radka Havlová

Současná Evropa 2010, 2010(2):83-105  

Mediterranean has always been an area of fundamental interest of the European Union. The dialogue between the EU and the Mediterranean states was institutionalized already in 1995 within the Barcelona process. The Union for Mediterranean represents the most up-to-date initiative of the EU in the Mediterranean. EU initiatives in the region nevertheless frequently fail because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which complicates cooperation between the EU and the Mediterranean states. EU is therefore also actively involved in the Middle East peace process. So far the EU nevertheless acted more like a sponsor of the Palestinian Autonomy and did not fully...

Spolupráca v oblasti spravodlivosti a vnútorných vecí v Európskej únii po prijatí Lisabonskej zmluvy

Justice and Home Affairs Cooperation in the European Union after the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty

Lucia Hurná

Současná Evropa 2010, 2010(2):107-126  

The Lisbon Treaty represents a major milestone in the evolution of Justice and Home Affairs Cooperation in the European Union (which concerns immigration, asylum, border controls, judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters and police cooperation). The Lisbon Treaty abolishes the "old" pillar structure of the European Union. Matters which were previously part of the third pillar, such as police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, will be treated under the rules of the supranational cooperation. This document provides necessary and positive response to the deficiencies and vulnerabilities that characterised the previous system. However,...

Společná zemědělská politika EU a její aplikace v České republice

Common agriculural policy of the EU and their aplication in the Czech Republic

Milan Vošta

Současná Evropa 2010, 2010(2):127-142  

Agriculture is a sector of material production. Its final product is the outcome of direct human activity in the nature. The agriculture specific is its production and non-production function. The original aim of the agricultural policy of EU was sufficient production, which would increase the living standard of rural population. The current agricultural policy is a more complex system of agricultural production that is competitive on the world market, sensitive to the environment and to the health of the population. The following text defines the objectives and principles of Common Agricultural Policy in the first part. Then it covers the reforms...

Vošta, M.; Bič, J.; Stuchlík, J.: Energetická náročnost: determinanta změn toků fosilních paliv a implikace pro EU a ČR

Aliaksandr Sudliankou

Současná Evropa 2010, 2010(2):143-145  

Book Review: Vošta, M.; Bič, J.; Stuchlík, J. Energetická náročnost: determinanta změn toků fosilních paliv a implikace pro EU a ČR. Příbram: Professional Publishing, 2008. 173 s. ISBN 978-80-86946-93-2.